A Nice Winter Day

Above the coastal paddocks on this sunny August day A freshening breeze blowing up from Gormans Bay For the Moyne Shire a pleasant Winter day of a weather temperature high of sixteen And the countryside looking quite healthy and green The songs of the blackbirds and magpies so pleasant to hear On this beautiful day for the time of year Twenty four nights and days till the first of the calendar Spring And the nesting birds already whistle and sing Under the blue sunny sky with just a few clouds of gray The contented cattle chewing their cuds do lay The countryside so green after recent rain With such pleasant weather how can one complain In August three weeks and three days from the calendar Spring The nest building songbirds do whistle and sing.